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...some time not been able to move as tellingly as it might. A normally vigorous executive board has had to content itself with utilizing only a fraction of the pressure potential inherent in the organization. The restless and dissatisfied veteran who pinned his pent-up hopes here is prey to disillusion and embitterment...
Last year the city of Ames had a local campaign of its own, headed by Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College. Ames sprayed and scrubbed itself into almost utter flylessness. In the stores, the hanging ribbons of flypaper, usually black with entangled prey, remained naked all summer, or were thrown away...
...After three days & nights of terror, in Rawalpindi proper the situation is now fairly quiet, but in the surrounding countryside there is a reign of lawlessness on a scale not known in British India since the Mutiny of 1857. Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters...
Toynbee begins his investigation far down in the pit of history, when the Ice Age ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...
...analysis of the Crimson's chances in Ivy League competition. It is fitting, though, because basketball poses predictional difficulties that are unique. Few college sports have so long a schedule, with the Varsity's 25 games a fairly typical example. To maintain an all-winning pace without once falling prey to the inevitable bad night, when nobody on the squad seems to be able to locate the basket without guided projectiles, is exceedingly unlikely of any quintet...